After buying software program virtualization firm Cameyo final 12 months, Google has relaunched a model of the service that makes it simpler for Home windows-based organizations emigrate over to ChromeOS. Now known as “Cameyo by Google,” the Digital App Supply (VAD) resolution permits customers to run legacy Home windows apps within the Chrome browser or as internet apps, stopping organizations from being tied to Microsoft’s working system.
Google says the brand new Cameyo expertise is extra environment friendly than switching between separate digital desktop environments, permitting customers to stream the particular apps they want as a substitute of virtualizing the complete desktop. That permits Home windows-based applications like Excel and AutoCAD to run side-by-side with Chrome and different internet apps, giving companies the flexibleness to make use of a mixture of Microsoft and Google companies.
“For years, the first blocker for deeper enterprise adoption of ChromeOS has at all times been the ‘app hole’ — the persistent have to entry a couple of remaining Home windows purposes inside a corporation,” Google stated in its announcement. “Now, groups can transfer to a extra fashionable, collaborative productiveness suite that was constructed for the net, and so they can nonetheless entry any specialised Home windows apps that their workflows nonetheless rely on.”
The purpose, after all, is to encourage extra organizations to offer Chromebooks for his or her groups, if not swap their programs to ChromeOS solely. Whereas Chromebooks may be extra reasonably priced than Home windows-based {hardware}, and extra apps are shifting to cloud or web-based platforms, the variety of ChromeOS customers continues to be dwarfed by these utilizing Microsoft’s platform.